Sora, Riku, Kairi, Aqua, Terra and Ven where the first to land in the Radiant Garden, which did not surprise them since the Twilight Town group was always 'fashionably late' as they called it. They landed in the shop center of the town where surprisingly no one was, not even the shop owners, which shocked the group.
"So when do you think they are going to be here?" Aqua asked.
"Who knows; those four always show up late and blame it on the same stupid thing every time." Riku replied.
"'Ops there was traffic got it memorized?'" Terra said, trying his best to mimic Lea with his lame excuse, which made everyone laugh.
"Well if my excuse was so stupid I guess I should come up with another one?" A voice said with made everyone stop laughing. They then turned to see the four people they were hoping not to see.
"Um… Hey Lea, Roxas, Namine, Xion…" Kairi said as the four then unsummoned their keyblade riders and armor. They then walked up to them and the three groups finally met for the first time in a year.
"It's about time we all saw each other huh?" Roxas said.
"I'll say," Sora replied, "It's been a little too long since the last time we were all on the same world."
"Far too long," Namine said. It looked like someone else was about to speak but the sound of an all too familiar voice silenced them all.
"I knew it." A lower woman's voice said. They then all turned to see the two familiar pink haired sisters walking towards them.
"Lightning, Serah!" Ventus said as the two sisters approached them.
"It's so great to see you! Claire said she saw some shooting stars and she said it was you so I guess she was right!" Serah said cheerfully as Light let out a snicker.
"Good to finally see you guys again; it's been a long time since I've seen your faces." Lightning said as she put some of her pink hair behind her ear. "I take it you all came to see the rest of the committee?"
"Well actually, we came to talk to all of you." Ven said.
"Why? Is something wrong?" Serah asked.
The group then exchanged looks, which worried the sisters, but then Xion spoke up. "Destiny Islands fell into darkness." She said.
Serah then let out a gasp as Light's eyes widened. "Oh no, I'm so sorry!" Serah said, apologizing to Sora, Riku and Kairi.
"If your world fell into darkness then we should get you to the house as soon as possible." Lightning said as she began to walk off with Serah right behind her. The rest of the group then followed them through the streets and made their way to Merlin's house.
When they finally got there, Lightning opened the door and allowed the keyblade wielders and Serah in first. When they first stepped inside, the room looked bigger to them, which proved to them how far this world has come, and how close it was to being fully restored. In this house was Leon, who was sitting in the seat Cid normally sat in, Riona and her dog Angelo, Snow, Hope and Stich, who was the first to notice them. "Sora! Sora!" The blue alien said as he ran up to the keyblade wielders with Angelo not far behind. Stich climbed up Sora's shoulder and sat there until he gave the alien attention while Angelo ran around the group, waiting for someone to pet him, and it was Aqua who gave in first.
"Sora, Riku, Kairi, we're so sorry about what happened to your world." Riona said.
"How did you know about that?" Kairi asked.
"We just got the message sent through from Yen Sid a few minutes ago; he told us all about it and how you were coming to meet up here to talk with us." Leon said.
"Well if it was a few minutes ago shouldn't you have gathered everyone already?" Namine asked.
"Um… We all are here." Hope replied. Sora looked at him shocked and then looked around the room, seeing the group of people in the room. This wasn't a small group, but it was normally a lot bigger. It was then when he remembered.
"Oh that's right, Cloud and the others are on their home world." Sora said when he looked around the room again. "But what about Cecil and Terra… The girl one."
"Cecil went back to her home world not too long ago, I don't think he told you but he has a family to look after," Snow explained, "And Terra went to go look for Kefka."
Sora then remembered that Kefka did escape the second Keyblade War alive, but he didn't know about Cecil's family; but he just decided to ignore it. "Okay then." He spoke.
"So your world, do you have any idea how it sunk into darkness?" Leon asked.
"Well we kind of have a clue, a replica of mine was there on the world before it sunk into darkness, only thing is for the longest time I thought I had killed him." Riku said.
"How was he brought back then?" Riona asked.
"That's the thing; none of us know how." Terra said.
"The only person we know could bring back the dead was Xehanort, since he resurrected Ansem and Xemnas." Lea added.
"By the way, where is Diz?" Riku asked.
"You mean that old man? Some leader he is, all he does is sit up in that tower all day going over his endless pages of reports. If you ask me the world as fine without him." Lightning said.
"Claire, you have to give him some respect." Serah said.
"Why should I when he doesn't give any respect to us?" Lightning continued. It was clear to the keyblade wielders that Lightning was not the biggest fan of the wise man.
"Look, where not here to talk about how much of a pain in the ass Ansem is, we have more important things to discuss." Hope said as he waved his hand towards the keyblade wielders, a sign for them to continue.
"Xion, you were around Xehanort, did he talk about how to resurrect people around you?" Ven asked.
Xion only shook her head. "Unfortunately no, it was weird, he normally only told me, Vanitas, Ansem and his younger self everything, but he didn't once talk about that." She stopped. "Vanitas and I figured that if Xehanort didn't tell it to us then it was either something that didn't need to be brought up or it was too important to even tell us."
Riku only looked at Xion from across the room strangely; the only people Xion ever told about her and Vanitas being a 'couple' was Roxas, Lea and Namine. Xion never once thought telling Riku about it since she knew he would flip out. That's why this time when she said his name she left no evidence that they were a couple. But you had to be friend with Riku for a long time to know that he was good at figuring things out, even if there was no proof available what so ever.
"Who would want to get rid of you three then? Whoever it is obviously sunk your world into darkness for a reason, but who?" Leon asked.
"Well that is why we are here right now." Roxas said.
Aqua then stopped petting Angelo. "Yen Sid said we have to travel the worlds to keep them safe from darkness, but it's also so we can find clues to just who is causing this darkness." Aqua said.
"So what's the plan then?" Serah asked.
"Well since this world has been a target of darkness for some time now, we need you guys to stay here and alert us if any kind of darkness makes an appearance here." Terra said.
"And while we stay here you are going to travel to other worlds?" Snow asked.
Sora then nodded. "Do you think you guys can handle it?" He asked.
"Of course." "Definitely!" "Like always." Several voices from the group said.
"Then just call us if you need anything!" Kairi said as the keyblade wielders began to walk out the door.
"Good luck!" Riona said as all the keyblade wielders poured out the door. When they were out in the beaming sunlight, they saw a figure running towards them, acting like he was in a huge hurry to get to them.
"Merlin!" They all said as the wizard stopped when he made it to them, putting his hands on his knees and breathing heavily.
"My gosh, it's a good thing I made it to you before you all took off, I am actually here to speak to Xion." Merlin said. Xion shrugged at this, but she did move her way up to the front of the group and stood in front of the wizard. "Yen Sid contacted me and wanted me to work as fast as I could to make you this."
Merlin then held out his hand which contained a small armor guard like Kairi's but the colors where gold and red. "Keyblade armor? I'm sorry but I don't have a keyblade anymore; I use a sword or a gunblade normally." Xion said.
"No, no, this is designed for you so you can wear armor but also be able to travel the worlds without having to need a keyblade rider of gummi ship." Merlin said. Xion shrugged again, but she then put the armor guard on her shoulder. Merlin then nodded at her, so she tapped it and instantly she was covered in a bright light. When it faded, she was covered in a suit of gold and red armor with a glowing light right below the middle of her breasts. Xion then looked down to see that she was not touching the ground and noticed that there where glowing marks on her hands and at the bottom of her armor's feet which let out fire that caused her to fly.
"Woah…" She said as she quickly learned to stop the rockets and she landed on the ground.
"We call it the Iron Woman Mark VII Armor; you should be able to figure out how to work it as you travel." Merlin explained as Xion then tapped her armor guard and the armor vanished.
"Thank you Merlin." Xion said as Merlin nodded.
"Of course, now good luck on your adventure!" Merlin said as he then walked past the group and into the house.
"So how is the group splitting going to work this time?" Namine asked. She wasn't present when they split it last time, but she was in Kairi's body so she knew what they had to do.
Without even questioning it, Sora moved towards Kairi, Terra moved towards Aqua, Roxas moved towards Namine, and Xion moved towards Riku; hinting that they wanted to be in a group together since it was their love interest. Lea and Ven only rolled their eyes at this, since Lea's girl was on another world and Ven didn't find anyone he was crazy for yet.
"Well if it is alright, I would like to be in Sora and Kairi's group, since I still need to replay Sora for keeping me safe for twelve years." Ven said.
"Ven, I told you, you don't to need to repay me." Sora said.
"Well please just let me be in your group so I can, if you let me I will shut up about it." Ventus said. Sora only rolled his eyes while smiling and nodded, completing their team.
Little did they know when they were talking about that, Lea was inching over to Roxas and Namine, since he so desperately wanted to be with his best friend and his girl after all. "Lea, you need to work on being stealthier." Aqua said.
Lea only shut his eyes hard, preparing for the others to prevent them from being in a group together. But before that could happen, Namine stepped forward. "Don't worry you guys, I will make sure to keep these two in line." Namine said.
"I don't know, are you sure you can handle these two?" Kairi asked.
"Don't worry, I spent my time with both of them, I know how to make them both shut up and behave." Namine said. She had spent time in Castle Oblivion with Lea, or Axel in this case when she was held captive by them, and Roxas, well we all know why she knows him.
There was then a moment of silence, which made both Roxas and Lea bite their tongues, but then Terra spoke up. "Fine, you three can be in a group." He said as everyone else nodded.
"REALLY?" Roxas and Lea said at the same time with must enthusiasm in their voices. Everyone then nodded once more, and Lea ran over to Namine and hugged her until she couldn't breathe.
"Namine you are the bestest best friend's girlfriend ever!" Lea said as he let go of her just when she was starting to turn blue.
"Well then I guess that leaves us in a group." Riku said as he looked at Xion, Terra and Aqua.
"Good, it's about time I am not stuck in an all guys group again." Aqua said as she looked at Xion, who only laughed.
"Well then I guess when the time comes we will all end up on the same world." Sora said.
"So I guess we'll see you guys later?" Xion said.
"Just call us when you need us." Lea said as everyone then nodded and summoned their riders and their armor. They then all waved to each other one last time before heading off towards the stars, searching for a world in danger of the darkness.
Once again, i am sorry for the lack of updates. I know, I havent updated since last year! I feel so bad lol. I am sorry but I was sick and stuff, but I am ready to write once more!
And yes, Xion's amror is a female version of an the Iron Man suit worn by Tony in the Avengers. I just figured since Marvel will not be making an appearance in this story but I love Tony Stark that I could at least make Xion have all of Tony's awesome powers :D
Oh and also, there is a new poll up on my profile if you would not mind voting.
And I am also sorry for not putting the Dark One and his lackes in this chapter, but they will be in the next one so just bear with me.
Oh and also I came up with a new musical theme for our heroes of light, just when they are having a fluffy moment and stuff. It's called Oracion and it was from the Pokemon: Rise of Darkrai soundtrack. I am sorry if you dont like pokemon, but I am older and still love the series. Speaking of which, I want to get Soulsilver or Heartgold, which one do you think I should get?
So anyway, please R&R and look out for the next chapter some time soon!
